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she wants a weekly standing meeting of the president of the united states. she get it is. i bet the first few meetings were awkward. they occur on thursday mornings. over the course of the meetings, she wins and moves over the president through her hard work and intelligence, and he comes to realize she is a familiar figure. she's a strong, confident, progressive minded women. he's met women like her before. she knows how to read him. she spent her life dealing with difficult men. i don't mean her husband bill. her father, her brother, other men in her life. she knows how to deal with these men. and she knows how to deal with president obama. and how those reflect many what we have seen in president obama. >> host: one thing a leader days is stay in the room. they stay engage. we have barack obama walking out of 2009 during a briefings on the gulf oil spill crisis, here the room is crowded with coast guard officials and epa and department of energy. and in terms of the energy secretary he says, steve, i'm out. when negotiations stuff. he wack walks out root of. when he's n
she wants a weekly standing meeting of the president of the united states. she get it is. i bet the first few meetings were awkward. they occur on thursday mornings. over the course of the meetings, she wins and moves over the president through her hard work and intelligence, and he comes to realize she is a familiar figure. she's a strong, confident, progressive minded women. he's met women like her before. she knows how to read him. she spent her life dealing with difficult men. i don't mean...
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of the united states apps. unfortunate circumstances. sometimes that happens in life. however what they do is put the goal of the country and of the organization ahead of the personality. what i discovered this is not really a personality clash. obama's thinking goes back to the early 1980's, and count three handwritten letters written by barack obama by a palestinian activist where he's trying to ingratiate himself and i touched on this briefly in the book. reverend wright as he goes after him as somebody that's going to help him rise and he takes on his view of israel as well, when most importantly, you have the rabbi who is a neighbor in hyde park in the area of chicago, and he is on the far left of american politics and the american jewish experience. this is a person who in 1979 pin the inaudible saying that you should stop talking about the holocaust. think about this. this is in the late 1970's which many holocaust survivors are still alive. they're still showing their tattoos from the death camps to the
of the united states apps. unfortunate circumstances. sometimes that happens in life. however what they do is put the goal of the country and of the organization ahead of the personality. what i discovered this is not really a personality clash. obama's thinking goes back to the early 1980's, and count three handwritten letters written by barack obama by a palestinian activist where he's trying to ingratiate himself and i touched on this briefly in the book. reverend wright as he goes after him...
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inside the united states are inside nato allies in europe or australia. you have a blueprint for the entire network. once you have that number, as fun as it doesn't know that bin laden instead, you could swoop in and surprise them, killing capture al qaeda leaders around the world, dismantle the organization and win the war. if he was willing to wait a couple weeks or a month before the television announcement, he would be just announcing the death. he would be announcing the death of al qaeda and final victory in the war on terror. he threw that away a few minutes before the television cameras. >> host: is very clear from your account from the statement was written in advance that they said he was ready to go politically. as you say, the surprise of many senior advisers. >> guest: he brought along with ben rose was very influential in racers. >> host: let's move onto another case study that was fascinating. they're hardly ever far from the surface of our politics. once again this morning that the assassination of the libyan ambassador, stories are back i
inside the united states are inside nato allies in europe or australia. you have a blueprint for the entire network. once you have that number, as fun as it doesn't know that bin laden instead, you could swoop in and surprise them, killing capture al qaeda leaders around the world, dismantle the organization and win the war. if he was willing to wait a couple weeks or a month before the television announcement, he would be just announcing the death. he would be announcing the death of al qaeda...
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a lot of it outside the united states. when she meets barack obama in 1891 in a cafÉ in chicago, they had a lot in common. they both grew up in muslim countries. he ran and indonesia. they have a different date. they're definitely on the last part of the spectrum and they have resorted to stand for what they consider an american parochialism. and that becomes a bonding moment. early on. but let's not forget who valerie shared is in the obama is. she is the gilded arch gateway into the establishment. she knows everyone. she's from a prosperous and successful family that's been successful for a long period of time. she was deputy chief of staff, mayor of chicago, have the power to stop the projects, went to stanford law school. this is someone who is very influential, very connected, very powerful. and they become very grateful and becomes essentially a third member of the family. i find it really interesting story. i can't wait to read the memoirs from every sin. >> host: reading about the generational change. >> guest: mo
a lot of it outside the united states. when she meets barack obama in 1891 in a cafÉ in chicago, they had a lot in common. they both grew up in muslim countries. he ran and indonesia. they have a different date. they're definitely on the last part of the spectrum and they have resorted to stand for what they consider an american parochialism. and that becomes a bonding moment. early on. but let's not forget who valerie shared is in the obama is. she is the gilded arch gateway into the...
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the united states does not. >> guest: we're above that. >> host: all right. also in the book, you pick up a really big target of the left, the coch brothers. you beat them about the head too for supporting policies that are in their self-interest making themselves rich and economic think tanks, and that they put out a lot of -- i don't know if it's disinformation, tell me -- >> guest: that's what it is. >> host: they are putting out disinformation in order to con vinsz the american middle class to act against their best interests. >> guest: if you do that over and over and over, that's what happens. >> host: what do you mean? >> guest: say how wonderful policies are, and when it's -- >> host: we trade, low taxes on the risk, people keep profits overseas? >> guest: you hear that over and over and over, and pretty soon, people believe it. >> guest: one of the examples we cite in the book they engaged in, one of their non-profits, on the eve of the 2010 congressional elections, they began running ads that from the moment in canada, had a brain tumor, and you don
the united states does not. >> guest: we're above that. >> host: all right. also in the book, you pick up a really big target of the left, the coch brothers. you beat them about the head too for supporting policies that are in their self-interest making themselves rich and economic think tanks, and that they put out a lot of -- i don't know if it's disinformation, tell me -- >> guest: that's what it is. >> host: they are putting out disinformation in order to con vinsz...
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the united states does not. alright now in the book you also pick up another really, you know big target of the left, the koch brothers and you've beat them about the head too. for supporting policies that are in their self-interest in making themselves extremely rich. you say they not only control politicians but also even economic think-tanks at george mason university. i believe you saved the cato institute and that they basically been put out a lot of, i don't know if you would call it misinformation and if i'm wrong tell me -- >> guest: that is exactly right. >> host: putting out this information in order to convince the american middle class to act against their best interest. >> guest: you see that over and over and over. that is what happens. >> host: what do you mean? >> guest: you say how wonderful these policies are. is repeated. >> host: low trade and low taxes on the rich and allowing them to keep their profits overseas. >> guest: you hear it over and over, pretty soon people believe the. >> guest:
the united states does not. alright now in the book you also pick up another really, you know big target of the left, the koch brothers and you've beat them about the head too. for supporting policies that are in their self-interest in making themselves extremely rich. you say they not only control politicians but also even economic think-tanks at george mason university. i believe you saved the cato institute and that they basically been put out a lot of, i don't know if you would call it...
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the united states does not. all right, now in the book you also pick up another really, you know, big target of the left. the cole brothers. and you beat them about the head, too. -- koch brothers. for supporting policies that are in their self interest and making themselves extremely rich. you say they not only control politicians it also even economic think tank at george mason university. i believe you say the cato institute, and that they basically been put out a lot of, i don't know if you've got disinformation. if i'm wrong, tommy -- >> that's exactly what it is. >> in order to convince the american class to act against their best interest. >> you do that over and over and over, that's what happens. >> what do you mean? >> well, say how wonderful these policies are, when it's repeated -- >> free trade and low taxes on the ridge and allowing people to keep their profits overseas. >> you hear it over and over and over, pretty soon people believe it. >> one of examples we cite in the book that they engaged in
the united states does not. all right, now in the book you also pick up another really, you know, big target of the left. the cole brothers. and you beat them about the head, too. -- koch brothers. for supporting policies that are in their self interest and making themselves extremely rich. you say they not only control politicians it also even economic think tank at george mason university. i believe you say the cato institute, and that they basically been put out a lot of, i don't know if...
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one of the things in the united states that is different in other countries -- then you start to come up with a list of how individuals plan to vote and often a little bit of information. the same thing would happen when you send canvassers out. tried to identify voters d they are able to start sorting people out. who do i need to keep targeting with malar persuasion phonecalls. so this is the way campaigns have always worked. what changed in the end of the last century we are starting to get data about people. it was well beyond what they knew about their area and their voter registration told you about themselves. it was not traditionally political information but a lot of it was collected by commercial marketers and especially the credit rating agency which really had an interest in accumulating as much possible information about your demographics and your habits and your lifestyle and what happened starting in the late 1990s was people in politics discovered they'd could -- what they knew about you politically and what they knew about your precinct and all the sources of informati
one of the things in the united states that is different in other countries -- then you start to come up with a list of how individuals plan to vote and often a little bit of information. the same thing would happen when you send canvassers out. tried to identify voters d they are able to start sorting people out. who do i need to keep targeting with malar persuasion phonecalls. so this is the way campaigns have always worked. what changed in the end of the last century we are starting to get...